2744 Mars days into the mission, NASA declared Spirit a “stationary research station”, expected to stay operational for several more months until the dust buildup on the solar panels forces a final shutdown.

Why post the Mars one... it's like the Funny Picture version of a certain Futurama episode.

Also... that 27 years old not married no children one is so good as someone who recently turned 27. I'm firmly in the **** yeah category but I have mates who act like it's the end of the world! That said, none of us want kids any time soon, even the practically married guys. Only 1 or 2 of our entire group makes anywhere near enough to be able to raise a kid properly.

I'm also firmly in the "**** yeah" category. Not being married with children is pretty bad ass. I'm sure that it's also great to have kids; but once you do have kids, you can't really go back to not having them.

No girls on the internet is just so amazingly true and I can say I'd never really thought of it but had always known it, if that makes sense! As in I never got why it mattered that someone was a girl in a game or anything.

That is one thing I never understood about the waiter/waitress industry. I have never understood tips in most cases. I work in a hardware store and provide more service towards customers than any waitress has ever provided towards me. I have spent hours helping a customer get the right products and I receive zero in tips. They bring you food and maybe 1 refill of a drink.

That is one thing I never understood about the waiter/waitress industry. I have never understood tips in most cases. I work in a hardware store and provide more service towards customers than any waitress has ever provided towards me. I have spent hours helping a customer get the right products and I receive zero in tips. They bring you food and maybe 1 refill of a drink.

It's a stupid industry. They should just be paid normally but it is entrenched in our culture.

That is one thing I never understood about the waiter/waitress industry. I have never understood tips in most cases. I work in a hardware store and provide more service towards customers than any waitress has ever provided towards me. I have spent hours helping a customer get the right products and I receive zero in tips. They bring you food and maybe 1 refill of a drink.

I think the argument (and someone here who works/has worked in that industry can confirm) that they don't get much at all in terms of hourly pay, making most of their income from tips.

I'm sure this will change one day if/when I have a family I'm paying for but nowadays, my restaurant bills are rarely more than $20-25 if it's a decent place AND I get some alchohol.

So I leave them like $5 maybe. Generally they don't do much for me...they bring the food and drink and that is that. Someday, if I'm paying for a bigger meal for multiple people and they really did have to do more work, I'll have to adjust accordingly.

But that's my mindset. I'm sure in some cases it holds true that a larger bill means they did more work, but when I go get a steak by myself somewhere, they don't do much work.

it's difficult to have any understanding of why waitstaff get tipped when the extent of your eating out experience consists of chili's. it's much easier to understand when you go to an actual restaurant that serves something that resembles food.

How would you know? Your diet consists of small servings of fruit and energy drinks.

That is one thing I never understood about the waiter/waitress industry. I have never understood tips in most cases. I work in a hardware store and provide more service towards customers than any waitress has ever provided towards me. I have spent hours helping a customer get the right products and I receive zero in tips. They bring you food and maybe 1 refill of a drink.

Because they make like $2/hour if they're lucky, and all of that goes to tax. It's how restaurant economics work. It's why a cheeseburger costs $7 instead of $20.

A tipped employee engages in an occupation in which he or she customarily and regularly receives more than $30 per month in tips. An employer of a tipped employee is only required to pay $2.13 per hour in direct wages if that amount combined with the tips received at least equals the federal minimum wage. If the employee’s tips combined with the employer’s direct wages of at least $2.13 per hour do not equal the federal minimum hourly wage, the employer must make up the difference. Many states, however, require higher direct wage amounts for tipped employees.

Still dumb, but meh. You pay 7 dollars for a cheeseburger, and then tip say 3-4 dollars. Wouldn't you rather pay 15 out right and no tip?

not true in the vast, vast majority of restaurants. specifically excluding crappy chains.

it'd be a lot more than $4-5 more, too. Most of the servers that do well could easily land other sales jobs our deal jobs, but serve because the money is good. To keep those people, restaurants would have to to jack up prices to stupid levels.

not true in the vast, vast majority of restaurants. specifically excluding crappy chains.

For smaller things you maybe right, for tipping would be better option. But in a larger meal with more people it may help. I don't know, just think getting paid 2.13 is kind of lame. Hooray laws that leave you scratching your head.

Was a server for 2+ years. It's a stressful and up and down job, it's not as horrible as some make it out to be though. You just have to constantly be on your toes and have a good memory. You're on the move constantly so it gets tiring. The reason $5 on a $138 tab is ridiculous, is because that's a lot of work to do. At Chili's, where everything is pretty cheap.. you're talking about a table of at least 4 or 5 with appetizers or desserts and possibly drinks. To get five bucks total is just shameful. Cheap bastards.